TY - BOOK ID - 3527390 TI - Immigration, assimilation, and the cultural construction of American national identity PY - 2016 VL - *14 SN - 9781138100411 9781315657677 9781317328742 9781317328759 PB - New York London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - National characteristics, American KW - Nationalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Americanization KW - Protestantism KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - Kallen, Horace Meyer, KW - Glazer, Nathan KW - Moynihan, Daniel P. KW - Huntington, Samuel P. KW - Political and social views. KW - United States KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Moynihan, Daniel P., KW - National characteristics [American ] KW - History KW - Huntington, Samuel Phillips KW - Political and social views KW - Moynihan, Daniel Patrick KW - Kallen, Horace Meyer UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3527390 AB - "Over the course of the 20th century, there have been three primary narratives of American national identity: the melting pot, Anglo-Protestantism, and cultural pluralism/multi-culturalism. This book offers a social and historical perspective on what shaped each of these imaginings, when each came to the fore, and which appear especially relevant early in the 21st century. These issues are addressed by looking at the United States and elite notions of the meaning of America across the 20th century, centering on the work of Horace Kallen, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Samuel P. Huntington. Four structural areas are examined in each period: the economy, involvement in foreign affairs, social movements, and immigration. What emerges is a narrative arc whereby immigration plays a clear and crucial role in shaping cultural stories of national identity as written by elite scholars. These stories are represented in writings throughout all three periods, and in such work we see the intellectual development and specification of the dominant narratives, along with challenges to each. Important conclusions include a keen reminder that identities are often formed along borders both external and internal, that structure and culture operate dialectically, and that national identity is hardly a monolithic, static formation"--Provided by publisher. ER -